ResearchChannel garners Wall Street Journal attention:
Newspaper calls ResearchChannel ‘smart’ video site

August 8 , 2007
SEATTLE — It seems The Wall Street Journal has taken a shine to ResearchChannel.

ResearchChannel has now twice been mentioned in a well-known consumer technology column by Journal reporter Lee Gomes.

Gomes characterized ResearchChannel as one of the “smart video” sites offering an alternative to YouTube or iFilm, with an emphasis on “academic research and unvarnished technical topics” in his June 18 column. An earlier April article compared ResearchChannel and its contemporaries to “YouTubes for wonks.”

The most recent mention generated a huge traffic spike on ResearchChannel.org as twice as many visitors sought out the site on June 18 and 19.

Leading research and academic institutions have known about ResearchChannel’s value since its inception in 1996. More than 50 make up the consortium which has now contributed more than 3,000 programs on technology, science, business and the humanities distributed online, on-air and on-demand.

Phillippa Kassover, ResearchChannel’s senior development director, said, “We are very grateful for the recognition that Lee Gomes of The Wall Street Journal has given the channel.”

She explained the goal is to help more media reach the same conclusion as Gomes, who wrote, “Countless hours of edifying video, all waiting out there for you, nearly all of it free to all askers. Don’t you feel smarter already just knowing about it?”

Read The Wall Street Journal’s most recent column about ResearchChannel:
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/article_print/SB118194674116237258-lMyQjAxMDE3ODExODkxNDg2Wj.html

About ResearchChannel
ResearchChannel links a growing global audience to the revolutionary developments, insights and discoveries of leading research and academic institutions through online, on-air and on-demand video distribution formats. Founded as a way to share breakthrough research with the public, the ResearchChannel consortium includes world-renowned universities and research institutions. Video programming ranging from technology and science innovations to fascinating arts and humanities topics is shared in its original form and without interruption.

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PRESS CONTACT
Erin Lodi
Communications and Public Relations
ResearchChannel
206-543-8907
erinlodi@researchchannel.org